Queens College, Charlotte

Queens University of Charlotte

Former names	Queens College (1912–2002)
Motto	Non ministrari sed ministrare (Latin)
Motto in English	Not to be served but to serve
Type	Private
Established	1857
Religious affiliation	Presbyterian
Endowment	$100 million (2016)
President	Dr. Pamela L. Davies
Academic staff	124 full-time
Undergraduates	1,869
Postgraduates	517
Location	Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Campus	Urban
Newspaper	The Queens Chronicle
Colors	Blue and Gold
Athletics	NCAA Division II – South Atlantic Conference
Nickname	Royals
Affiliations	APCU CIC NAICU
Mascot	Rex the Royal
Website	Queens.edu

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The school has approximately 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School of Education, the James L. Knight School of Communication, Hayworth School of Graduate and Continuing Studies and the Andrew Blair College of Health, which features the Presbyterian School of Nursing. Established in 1857, the university offers 34 undergraduate majors and 66 concentrations, and 10 graduate programs.

Queens University of Charlotte is a co-educational, master's level university.

Founded in 1857 as the Charlotte Female Institute, the school was originally at College and 9th streets in what is now Uptown Charlotte. From 1891 to 1896, it was called the Seminary for Girls. In 1896, the Concord and Mecklenburg Presbyteries chartered the Presbyterian Female College. The seminary merged with this new college. In 1912, anticipating the move to the present campus in the Myers Park neighborhood, the school became Queens College.

The name Queens College was adopted for three reasons: at the request of the Alumnae Association to disarm prejudice in deference to other Presbyterian colleges which claimed an equal right to the denominational name; to commemorate Queen's Museum, a classical school established in Charlotte in 1771; and to honor Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg. In the aftermath of World War II, Queens admitted its first male students. A co-educational Evening College was established in 1948 that provided instruction for adults. It was the forerunner of the New College, which was inaugurated in 1979 as an undergraduate evening program designed for working adults. In 1995, New College was renamed the Pauline Lewis Hayworth College.

In 1979, the traditional undergraduate liberal arts college at Queens was renamed the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). It began admitting resident males in 1987 when Queens went co-ed.

In 1989, CAS adopted the innovative Foundations of Liberal Learning program, which is now known as the Core Program in Liberal Arts and is required of all first-year students.